Sally Ride May 26, 1951 - July 23, 2012

[davidmash]

I found a documentary on her. I always admired her for her intelligence and her ability. I had no idea she passed away in 2012 and I also had no idea that she was gay. Pulling the fuses was a dick move.

But “Sally” isn’t just a portrait of how a young Dodgers fan from Encino with wild ambitions made her way to NASA and became, as Costantini jokingly puts it, “the very first Valley girl in space.” Instead, the documentary threads that well-known tale with a private one about how Ride kept her nearly three-decade relationship with O’Shaughnessy a secret until her death from cancer in 2012, when Ride’s obituary made it public.

Now, “Sally” puts their love story front and center. Dramatizations, love letters, photographs and home videos paint a portrait of a happy couple who squirreled a life for themselves away from the public eye. Ride’s sexuality is not treated merely as a footnote to her story, and the documentary asks viewers to understand why the astronaut opted to cordon off a part of her life and live inside a closet of her own making.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/sally-explains-why-trailblazing-astronaut-100000400.html

Im watching the documentary and its very touching and well done.

It sad that she had to keep her life a secret from the public just because people cant mind their own business and let people be.